Ribbons Unbound: My Fiancé's Lingering Regret novel Chapter 80

The news drained all color from Lorian's face.

He stared at the camera in Ewan's hand, unable to process what he'd heard.

Grabbing Ewan's collar, his voice cracked with panic.

"Why do you have this? Where's Sylvia? WHERE IS SHE?"

"What do you mean 'crashed at sea'? SAY THAT AGAIN!"

Ewan, knowing the whole revenge scheme, sighed heavily.

"This package from Sylvia arrived two days ago. Saw your name on it at the entrance, thought it might be wedding-related, so I opened it."

"Lorian, your sister is gone. Just this morning—I double-checked her flight info. The crash is all over Twitter. It's real."

"You always said you wanted her life as revenge. Well... now she's gone. Maybe we should pull the video at the wedding..."

"Lorian, she was your sister. The sister you supposedly cared about for six years..."

Lorian swayed like he might pass out.

He whispered desperately: "No way. No fucking way. She can't be gone. She's just messing with me!"

"She's just pissed I'm marrying someone else. She's punishing me."

"We talked on the phone THIS MORNING—she said she'd come to my wedding! She wouldn't lie about that. She can't be gone..."

Ewan looked at him with pity, placing the damaged camera in his trembling hands.

"Maybe before. But now she knows your plan. Did you seriously think she'd show up to her own public execution?"

"Come here so you could broadcast videos of your nights together? Let her mother be completely destroyed? Quietly accept your revenge?"

"Lorian, I don't know if Sylvia's mom ever messed with your parents' marriage, but Sylvia had nothing to do with it. As an outsider, she never fit into the Lancelot family. As your stepsister, she got nothing but cold shoulders."

"If you ask me, the Lancelots owe her way more than she owes you."

"Is Sylvia throwing a tantrum and refusing to show? Typical."

"You've always been too soft with her. Enemy's daughter or not, you've spoiled her for six years. She's such a child—after today, she probably won't dare show her face around you again."

"Lorian, you're too kind. Honestly, you should never have let Sylvia and her mother into your home at all. They should've carried the 'homewrecker' label forever."

"Why torture yourself for revenge? It breaks my heart seeing you like this..."

The barely hidden glee in her words cut through his daze.

He thought about their chat history.

The idea for cameras in the teddy bear had been Jocelyn's suggestion. Besides Ewan, she was the only one who knew the whole plan.

He grabbed her wrist so hard she gasped, his face twisted with rage.

"How did Sylvia find out about the cameras? DID YOU TELL HER?"